Performance enhancement of MANETs by employing Multipath Routing Protocol

-A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a continuously self-configuring, infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected without wires. Each device in a MANET is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently. Each must forward traffic unrelated to its own use, and therefore be a router. The primary challenge in building a MANET is equipping each device to continuously maintain the information required to properly route traffic. AODV (Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector) is a reactive routing protocol for mobile AdHoc networks (MANETs) and other wireless ad-hoc networks. Reactive means that it establishes a route to a destination only on demand. Due to combination of many topology change and heterogeneous type, it is really challenging in MANETs to efficiently route data from source to destination without failure. Proposed algorithm is based on AODV routing algorithm and it is compared with AOMDV, AODVM, and IZM-DSR algorithms which are multi-path routing algorithms based on AODV and DSR.